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tions of said Society, including the listof articles exhibited and premiums awarded; the amount 

 of receipts and expenditures of the year, and the objects for which the expenditures have been 

 made; the new industries inaugurated and new products produced, and any and all other facts 

 showing the development of the resources of the district embraced in such Society, which they 

 may deem worthy of such report. 



Skc. 3. The State Hoard of Agriculture shall report annually, on or before the fifteenth day 

 of January, to the Governorof the State, the full transactions of the State Society, including the 

 facts and statistics collected and information gained on the subjects for which it exists; also, 

 including the report from each of the above named Societies, or so much thereof as said Board 

 may deem of value for publication. 



Sec. 4. The Governor shall cause five thousand volumes of said report of the State Board of 

 Agriculture to be printed each year, at the expense of the State, and paid for as other public 

 printing, and delivered to the State Agricultural Society for general distribution. 



Skc. 5. All laws or parts of laws conflicting with the provisions of this Act are hereby 

 repealed. 



Skc. 6. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



AN ACT 



TO APPROPRIATE MONEYS TO PAY THE PRESENT OUTSTANDING INDEBTED- 

 NESS OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, CONTRACTED IN ERECTING 

 THE GRAND STAND, AND MAKING OTHER IMPROVEMENTS TO THE LANDS 

 AND PROPERTY OF SAID SOCIETY, APPROVED MARCH THIRTIETH, EIGHT- 

 EEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX. 



The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section* 1. The sum of sixteen thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty-nine 

 cents is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropri- 

 ated, to pay the outstanding indebtedness of the State Agricultural Society incurred in erecting 

 the grand stand, and making other improvements upon the lands and property of said Society; 

 and the Controller of State is hereby directed and authorized to draw his warrant in favor of 

 said Society, upon the requisition of the President and Secretary of the same, which requisition 

 shall be accompanied with certified copies of the evidences of debt to be canceled equal in 

 amount to the amount of the requisition for the said sum of sixteen thousand one hundred and 

 forty-one dollars and eighty-nine cents, and the Treasurer of State is hereby authorized and 

 directed to pay the same. The money so drawn by said State Agricultural Society shall be used 

 for the purpose of canceling the present outstanding indebtedness thereof, and for no other purpose. 



Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



AN ACT 



FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND OTHER INDUSTRIES, AP- 

 PROVED MARCH EIGHTEENTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT. 



The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise 

 appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars for the 'State Agricultural Society ; the sum of 

 fifteen hundred dollars for the Upper Sacramento Valley Agricultural Society; the sum of fif- 

 teen hundred dollars for the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hun- 

 dred dollars for the Golden Gate District Fair Association ; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars 

 for the Sonoma and Marin District Agricultural Society ; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for 

 the Northern District Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the Napa and 

 Solano District Agricultural Society; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the Santa Clara 

 Valley Agricultural Society ; the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the Southern District Agri- 

 cultural Society ; the sum of one thousand dollars for the Plumas, Lassen, and Modoc District 

 Fair; one thousand dollars for the Monterey County Agricultural Society ; one thousand dollars 

 for the El Dorado County Agricultural Society, and one thousand dollars for the Siskiyou County 

 Agricultural Society, for' each of tbe years eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Upon the pre- 

 sentation of the certificate of the President and Secretary of either of the Societies named 

 above to the State Controller, that such sums have been expended in premiums in accordance 

 with the provisions of this Act, at a fair held during the year eighteen hundred and seventy- 



